Schedule of Activities

Please refer to the Texas Education Agency’s website for agricultural education and the Texas FFA Association’s web site for updates.  Please verify dates and times prior to attendance and/or deadlines.

April 2005 1 Texas Young Farmers Scholarship Application Due - Fairfield 1 West Texas A&M Invitational CDE - WTAMU/Canyon 2 Clarendon Invitational CDE - Clarendon College/Clarendon 2 Judging Clinics (No Horse or Range/Pasture) - TAMU/College Station   3 - 4 VATAT Board of Directors Meeting - Austin   5 Area VI Land and Woodlands CDE - NETCC   5 South Texas Invitational CDE (Area X only) - Jourdanton   5 Area X FFA Dairy Cattle CDE - Jourdanton   5 Area IX CDE - SHSU/Huntsville   7 Area V Horse CDE - NCTC/Gainsville   7 Area VI Horse CDE - Marshall   7 Region 3 Wildlife CDE (Area 3, 10) - Welder WL Refuge/Sinton   9 Texas State University Invitational CDE - San Marcos   12 Region 2 Wildlife CDE (Areas 2, 7)   12 Area V, VI CDE - Texas A&M Commerce/ Commerce   13 Area II, V Land/Range/Pasture CDE - TSU/Stephenville   13 Area III, VII Dairy Cattle CDE - TSU/Stephenville   13 Area IV, VIII CDE - TSU/Stephenville   13 Area IX Dairy Cattle CDE - TSU/Stephenville   13 Area X FFA CDE - Texas A&M Kingsville   13 -15 Agriculture Consortium of Texas (ACT) - SHSU/Huntsville   15 State Chorus Applications Due - See Application   16 Area I, II FFA CDE - Texas Tech/Lubbock   16 Area III, VII FFA CDE - TAMU/College Station   16 Area IV, V FFA Meats CDE - Texas Tech/Lubbock   16 Area VI, VIII, IX and X FFA Meats CDE - TAMU/College Station   16 Area IX Range and Pasture CDE - TAMU/College Station   16 Area III, VII, X Horse CDE - TAMU/College Station   23 State Horse, Entomology, Cotton, Wool, Agronomy, Ag Communications, Food Sciences, Range and Pasture Plant ID CDE - Texas Tech/Lubbock   25 Area IX Degree Check/Livingston   26 Region 5 Wildlife CDE (Areas 4, 5, 8) - Contact Carolann Corado 940-894-3976   26 State Qualifier CDE - Range/Land/Poultry - Hamilton FFA   26 State Forestry CDE - SFA/Nacogdoches   28 State Land/Range/Dairy Foods/Dairy Cattle CDE - TSU/Stephenville   29 State Ag Mech/Ag Sales/Farm Bus. Mgmt/Forage/Marketing Plan - SHSU/Huntsville   30 State FFA Rodeo Entry Deadline - Memphis FFA   30 State FFA Floriculture, Nursery/Landscape, Livestock, Meats, Poultry CDE - TAMU/College Station   May 2005 2 - 3 Area IX Convention - SHSU/Huntsville 6 Area III Convention & Degree Check - Blinn College/Brenham 6 Deadline to order steer validation tags - TAMU 6 - 7 Area VIII Checking & Convention - TSTC/Waco   7 Area I Scholarship Selection - WTAMU/Canyon   7 Area II Pre-Check - Andrews   7 Area VIII Scholarship Interviews - TSTC/Waco   10 Area IV Degree Check - Breckenridge   10 Area V Convention, Star & Scholarship Pre-Check - Lancaster High School   10 State Wildlife CDE - contact Joe Dettling 979-845-6658   11 Area VII Scholarship Interviews/Degree Check/Convention - TXState/San Marcos   12 Area V Scholarship Committee 2nd pre-check - North Texas Fair/Denton   12 Area VI Lone Star/Stars/Scholarship Pre-Check - Gilmer   12 Area X American, Scholarship, Stars/Check Committee - Texas A&M Kingsville   13 Area X Convention/Awards and Degree Check - Texas A&M Kingsville   13 - 14 Area I Convention and Degree Check - Tascosa High School/Amarillo   13 - 14 Area II Convention and Degree Check - Odessa   14 Area III American Degree Check - Katy   14 Area IV Convention - Mineral Wells   14 Area V Degree Check - Frisco High School   14 Area VI Degree Check - Gilmer   30 Ag Ed Family offices closed   June 2005 1 Deadline for Public Speaking Entries - SHSU/Huntsville 4 - 7 Texas FFA Leadership Conference - Star 6 - 9 Area I Electric Camp - Frank Phillips College/Borger 8 -10 State FFA Degree Check - TBD   13 -14 Area III FFA Leadership Conference - J-BAR-J/Sealy   13 -14 Area IV FFA Leadership Conference - 4-H Center/Brownwood   13 - 15 Area I Leadership Conference - Clarendon College/Clarendon   19 - 22 Region II NAAE Conference - Thibodaux, Lousiana   20 National CDE Entries due to Austin   20 - 21 Area VI FFA Leadership Conference - TCJC/Tyler   20 - 22 Area V FFA Leadership Conference - Texhoma   20 - 22 Area IX FFA Leadership Conference - TBD   25 - 27 Area VII FFA Leadership Conference - McKinney Rough/Bastrop   27 Area X Advisory Committee Mtg - Camp Zephyr   27 - 29 Area II FFA Leadership Conference - Howard College/Big Spring   27 - 29 Area X FFA Leadership Conference - Camp Zephyr   30 Deadline to validate steers     July 2005 11 - 12 State FFA Rodeo Finals - Lubbock 12 - 15 Texas FFA Convention - Lubbock 12 - 15 State Speaking CDEs - Lubbock   August 2005 1 - 5 Texas Agriculture Teachers Conference - Galveston